Aaron is right, all I did was open all the green images and ctrl + u in Photoshop and shifted them all to -124, which gave that magenta color. That was it. (Of course, for the ContentPanel and ContentHeader I just shifted the Saturation all the way to the left to take out the color and changed the opacity to 40% so the background color would seep through, making it transparent.)

TIP: When Impulse updates, it WILL overwrite all the original images that you changed. Take a tip from Snowy and rename all your modified images (I just added [s] to the end to know they're mine) and then update the changed image names in the skin.xml and save a copy somewhere, so when Impulse updates, all you need to do is replace the skin.xml. I just tested it and worked great. (Impulse updated and it was green again, gah!)

its a bit garish , but it's my very first try.
still haven't gotten it to show different color on three of the pages, but I haven't gotten far enough to figure out how.

btw, when impulse updates it wipes out the whole thing and goes back to the original

Yeah, I updated my previous post and the original post with a tip on how to easily fix that.

hmm... I gotta figure out how to use that image shack thing....

Wulfie this should help you: how to post a screenshot.

(Basically, you need to copy the url from the last field at the bottom [direct link to image] and then paste that into the popup for the insert image button.)

Thanks Bebi
tryin again....

If it's anything like SDC it'll update almost everytime u open it. Not much point in skinning it is there if you have to replace everything every time it updates. I've opened it twice, it's updated..2 times.

lol.

You don't have to replace everything, like I added to my original post, all you would have to replace is the skin.xml.

But you're right...it is a pain. Maybe Stardock will keep all this in mind and leave all the skin aspects alone.  :NOTSURE: 

Hehe .. my latest after the update..

well that worked so well, I broke my connection and had to re-establish.

hmm... is the skin xml something subject to change?
if not, why not make a copy of the skin you create and just substitute it everytime you update?

store , news and community look awful with the green combined with the different colors though. don't think there's a way to fix that is there?

No...that's all web-based stuff.

Hence:

ok finally got it.

 :HOT: 

Woohoo!

I just save a copy of the skins folder...

If something can be skinned, skinners will find a way. You can't keep a skinner down  ;)  So, Stardock, you and your George Bush, we beat you! Skinnerz rulez! You will submit to the will of Landrew...

Anyway, there are only two rules in computers:

1) If it moves, shoot it

2) If it doesn't move, skin it

Ooops, went off into Star Trek land there.

Prolly just swapped my blue shirt for a red one...  :SURPRISED: 

As in If Overwote > Leave alone. :CONGRAT: 

I'd skin mine but it would probably just look like an Aero clone right now anyway   

Work in progress ;D

Snowy . . I like

It's far from done, Zu
I'm still figuring out what does what in the XML. It's just like in the old days when manually working with UIfiles for WB

I somehow hope Stardock leaves the "skinning" of Impulse as it is. It's fun doing it by 'trial and error', and skinning should be fun ;p

How about a Skinning Impulse Contest? hehe

How about a Impulse skinning category?

Let's get it to be 'final' before we head down that road
But it's definitely a great idea.

I bet this is one effect Stardock didn't expect Impulse to have